This does not make me very happy. Flickr just needs to stick to what it does better than everyone else. They can't possibly compete with Viddler and Youtube.
By having a 90 second limit, they're differentiating themselves and not trying to compete. I think it's analogous to Twitter's 140 characters (I think Gruber said that already too) and might end up being very interesting.
I'm kind-of watching by the sidelines to see how this one pans out. I see both sides. It could work. It could fail. I guess we'll all find out soon enough.
I don't see why it should compete with YouTube of any other big name hosted video site. Flickr's goal with video isn't to have people upload video blogs or some copyrighted materials.
Flickr is interesting to me because so many of my family and friends are already Flickr users, so they (a) are already subscribed to my photo stream, and (b) could see my "friends-only" videos without needing to create a new account or anything.
Stroll on over and visit Michael C. Harris
April 9, 2008
By having a 90 second limit, they're differentiating themselves and not trying to compete. I think it's analogous to Twitter's 140 characters (I think Gruber said that already too) and might end up being very interesting.
Stroll on over and visit Atomic Bombshell
April 9, 2008
I'm kind-of watching by the sidelines to see how this one pans out. I see both sides. It could work. It could fail. I guess we'll all find out soon enough.
Stroll on over and visit Redge
April 9, 2008
I don't see why it should compete with YouTube of any other big name hosted video site. Flickr's goal with video isn't to have people upload video blogs or some copyrighted materials.
Stroll on over and visit Matt Brubeck
April 18, 2008
Flickr is interesting to me because so many of my family and friends are already Flickr users, so they (a) are already subscribed to my photo stream, and (b) could see my "friends-only" videos without needing to create a new account or anything.